About Lee Su Kim (the writer of The Forbidden)

Lee Su Kim is an Associate Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and specialisation in Intercultural Communication, Second Language Education. She is very educated and brilliant women. 

She gets her Bachelor in Education English language in 1978 from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and then further her study to gets Diploma in Education TESL in 1978 at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Not only that, she success gets her Master in Education TESL in 1983 at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and lastly she gets her Doctorate in Education Second Language Education in May 2001 from University of Houston, Texas, USA.

She also loves to write journal articles. For instance, her journals are Lee Su Kim (1987) the use of free writing in the teaching of writing,The English Teacher, Vol. XVI Dec. 1987, 99-103 and Lee Su Kim(2004b) the Language Learner as a Complex Social Being : Perspectives from Second Language Acquisition, In Vethamani, M.A,(Ed.) Readings in TESL Vol. 2: Essays in Honour of Basil Wijasuriya. Kuala Lumpur: Sasbadi-Melta ELT Series. 

Besides that, she also active in giving her opinion. She is one of the Columnist for The Star, a leading English language newspaper in Malaysia for 3 years from 1993 to 1996 and Writer for children’s magazine on environmental awareness - Alam Pelangi, publication of the Malayan Nature Society. Not only that, Lee Su Kim also published her own book such as Lee Su Kim (2004) Malaysian Flavours, Second Edition for Pelanduk Publications, Lee Su Kim (1998) Manglish: Malaysian English at Its Wackiest, Singapore for Times Books International, Lee Su Kim(1996) Story and Grammar Charts for Form 1 for Penerbit Fajar Bakti and etc.